El Salvador: The Heirs of the Finca Florencia

The torment of El Salvador's civil strife knows no interval. Fighting
between government forces and leftist insurgents continued unabated
last week, and so did political killings. In a single day, 37 people
were assassinated by the country's security forces. In Soyapango, a
slum section of San Salvador, police dragged 23 people from their homes
and shot them dead in the street; seven others refused to come out and
were killed indoors.

Despite the level of violence, the struggling civilian-military junta
has continued to pursue...